Rare document in which the first Trustees of the first town in present-day Missouri who were elected under American law after the Louisiana Purchase (John B. Pratte, Jean-Baptists St. Gemme Beauvais, and Jean Baptiste Valle, all of whom signed the document) certify the election of their successors: Otho Schrader (the top vote-getter with 31 votes), Camille de Lassuz, Vital Beauvais, Charles Gregoire and Francois Jannis. When Henry Breckinridge, pioneer lawyer and author of the classic Views of Louisiana (first published account of the Missouri fur trade and the Indians of the region), lived as a youth in the home of Vital St. Gemme Beauvais, one of the city officials named in this document, he noted that Ste. Genevieve, though under American jurisdiction, was a town where almost no one spoke English. Even the first military commandant appointed by President Jefferson, Jean-Baptiste Valle, who signed this document, was French, succeeding his father, who had held the same position under Napoleon. The only exception to the Creole names on this paper was Otto Schrader, Jefferson's appointee as territorial judge and even he had been a soldier in the Austrian Army before immigrating to America. Eventually, Ste. Genevieve, being a key site in the fur trade, became Americanized, but this document provides a rare recollection of the very earliest days of French Creole dominance in the new Louisiana Territory.